gown
/ˈɡaʊ̯n/ verb C2- To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.
He/she/it gowns · Past gowned · Past participle gowned · -ing form gowning
Verb forms
- Base form
- gown
- He/she/it
- gowns
- Past
- gowned
- Past participle
- gowned
- -ing form
- gowning
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He recalled the cluster of little girls he had seen around her that evening--all gay in waists of red and blue and pink and white--and he wondered why Marilla always kept her so plainly and soberly gowned.
She was a lithe, dark-eyed woman in a wonderful gown of shimmering gray stuff like woven moonbeams, with gems on her neck and in her dark hair.
But now in one moment Anne saw herself winning the Avery scholarship, taking an Arts course at Redmond College, and graduating in a gown and mortar board, before the echo of Josie’s words had died away.
Hurst’s gown----”
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